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Hospital Major Incident Management and Support (HMIMMS)

The HMIMMS course teaches principles of management of major incidents in a hospital setting.

There are didactic lectures and tabletops covering aspects of preparation and planning, communication, triage and resolution. Attention will be paid to specific types of incidents eg CBRN (Chemical, Burns, Radiation and , infectious disease outbreaks and public health.

Course Date(s):	4-5 Feb 2010 & 4-5 Nov 2010
Course Duration:	2 days – 8am to 5 pm
Course Venue:	College of Emergency Care
Clinical Director(s):	Heike Geduld
Logistics Coordinator:	Fatima Saban
Course Price in ZAR:	R 1 450
Certification Received:	ALSG & EMSSA

Brief Course Overview

The HMIMMS course teaches an “all Hazards” approach to the management of major incidents in a hospital environment.

There are didactic lectures and tabletops covering aspects of preparation and planning, communication, triage and resolution.
Attention will be paid to specific types of incidents eg CBRN, infectious disease outbreaks and public health.

There is a manual to accompany the course and testing will be done – an online pretest prior to the course, and an MCQ test and triage testing at the end of the course.

Who should attend this course?

This course is pitched at doctors and nurses working in hospitals. As it is not primarily a clinical course, hospital administrators and managers may find the preparation and resolution aspects of the course useful.

Why should someone attend this course?

The HMIMMS course is useful for any individual working in a hospital to understand planning and the principles of management of major incidents. It also provides useful principles which can be applied everyday in our overloaded understaffed hospitals.

Detailed Course Outline

• Planning
• Reception phase
• Triage workshop
• Communication workshop
• Definitive care phase
• Recovery
• Special situations Workshops

Clinical Director Profile

Dr Heike Geduld

Senior Specialist Emergency Medicine

METRO EMS – Western Cape

Dr Geduld has been involved in the role out of the MIMMS course in South Africa for the last 2 years. Teaching MIMMS and HMIMMS around the country.